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Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged

Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged

by Guanzhong Luo (Author), Guanzhong Luo (Author)

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    Unabridged 2004

    $32.07

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    Hardcover 1994

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature. The University of California Press is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation available again.

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Format: Unabridged
 Pages: 552
 Edition: Unabridged
 Publisher: California University Press
Published: 14 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 0520224787
ISBN 13: 9780520224780

Media Reviews
By the measure of sheer density of history and drama, all other historical novels suffer by comparison to Three Kingdoms, the great epic of the Chinese literary tradition. Roberts' rendition of the prose is lively and readable, but his translation of the poetry is a delight, capturing the flavour and pace, and sometimes even the rhyme, of the original. -- National Post (Canadian daily)
Author Bio
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400) was a novelist and dramatist who played an important role in the development of Chinese popular fiction. Moss Roberts is Professor of Chinese at New York University. He is the translator and editor of Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (1979). John S. Service grew up in China and was a Foreign Service officer there from 1933 to 1945.